GPS Tracker Used To Find Stolen Outboard Motor - 3 Arrested

Source: OPPDate: Fri May 11 03:29:44 MST 2018

(GEORGIAN BAY TOWNSHIP, ON.)- Members of the Southern Georgian Bay Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were dispatched at 1:02 pm May 9, 2018 to a report of a theft of a outboard motor from a Georgian Bay Township residence. The difference in this report was the fact that the stolen motor had a GPS tracker unit attached to it and the reporter was able to advise of it's exact location to the responding officers. A suspect vehicle was stopped shortly afterwards by uniformed officers without incident on Highway 12 in the Town of Midland. The motor was recovered and returned to the owner and 3 males from the Southern Georgian Bay area have been each charged with,

- Possession Property Obtained by Crime Under $5,000 - in Canada contrary to section 354(1)(a) of the Criminal Code of Canada

They will appear before the Ontario Court of Justice in Midland on June 28,2018.

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